Bible Names H-M

Magog in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 10:2; Ezekiel 38-39. A race, like Gomer (the Cimmerians), dwelling in the N. country. Its weapon was the bow, its warriors were all horsemen. Probably the European Scythians, dominant in the region between the Caucasus and Mesopotamia for 30 years from 630 to 600 B.C., who were famous for the bow and fought almost wholly on horseback. ...

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Mahath in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma'-hath (machath, "snatching"; Meth): (1) One of the Kohathites having charge of the "service of song" in David's time, son of Amasai (1 Ch 6:35). Possibly the same as Ahimoth (1 Ch 6:25). He seems also to be the same as the person named in 2 Ch 29:12 during Hezekiah's time, though it is probable there is some confusion in the narrative. He is...

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Mahazioth in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(visions). One of the fourteen sons of Heman the Kohathite. 1Ch 25:4,30...

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Mahlon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Ruth's first husband (Rth 1:2; Rth 1:5; Rth 4:9). An Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, son of Elimelech and Naomi. Mahlon died in Moab childless, a judgment says the Targum for his marrying a Moabitess....

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Madai in Easton's Bible Dictionary

middle land, the third "son" of Japheth (Gen. 10:2), the name by which the Medes are known on the Assyrian monuments....

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Magog in Hitchcock's Bible Names

covering; roof; dissolving...

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Mahath in Naves Topical Bible

-Name of two descendants of Kohath 1Ch 6:35; 2Ch 29:12; 31:13...

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Mahazioth in Easton's Bible Dictionary

visions, a Kohathite Levite, chief of the twenty-third course of musicians (1 Chr. 25:4, 30)....

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Mahol in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma'-hol (machol, "dance"; compare bene-machol, "sons of dance"): The father of the 4 sages reputed next in wisdom to Solomon (1 Ki 4:31). Their names were Ethan, Heman, Chalcol, Darda....

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Machir in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(sold). 1. The eldest son, Jos 17:1 of the patriarch Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. 1Ch 7:14 At the time of the conquest the family of Machir had become very powerful, and a large part of the country on the east of Jordan was subdued by them. Nu 32:39; De 3:15 2. The son of Ammiel, a powerful sheikh of one of the transjordanic t...

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